On Sep 12, iDarya Information <i...@idarya.com> wrote: Hi!
> I would start develop an application for iPhone. I would advice you to think twice about it, before you start coding. :-) > I would to know, if I use your application, what is license matter Talking only about our code, IMDbPY is released under the GPL 2 or later license. This means that every IMDbPY-based program MUST be released under GPL 2 (or later) or any GPL-compatible license [1]. But your real problem is not the code, it's the data that code works on. These data are owned by the Internet Movie Database company (see our disclaimer [2]) and getting a license for a non-personal usage will cost you no less than 15.000 USD (the last time I checked, at least). Moreover, I assume that your application will access their server (through IMDbPY), and this would probably not be tolerated, from a commercial application. _Maybe_ they would accept it if your application is free (gratis) _and_ if it uses only the plain text data files (but this is just _my_ guess - their legal department is entitled to a different opinion ;), but I don't think this is what you want. Last but not least, I have more than serious doubts that such an application could be accepted by Apple itself: they canned programs from the iPhone Store for much less "controversies". :-/ > and is going to be free or not? You can use IMDbPY for free (in the "no money" sense) _and_ your program MUST be free (in the "free software"/"open source" sense) and released under one of the above mentioned licenses. As stated above, at the same time you have to respect the IMDb's terms of service (and this is the tricky part... ;-) > Also if you in future your server goes down (I hope never happened) > what goes happened with our application. I'm not sure about what you're meaning here: IMDbPY accesses its data from two sources: the IMDb's web server itself, and/or a local copy of the plain text data files distributed by IMDb [3]. IMDbPY is not affected in any way by the operativity of sourceforge.net, and we can easily move the development elsewhere, in case of need. To summarize: using IMDbPY you have to respect _both_ its license and the license of the IMDb's data. These two conditions reduce your options to a free software written and used only for personal and non-commercial usages. Hope this helps. +++ [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses [2] http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/docs/DISCLAIMER.txt [3] http://www.imdb.com/interfaces/#plain -- Davide Alberani <davide.alber...@gmail.com> [GPG KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://erlug.linux.it/~da/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-help mailing list Imdbpy-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-help
